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Thomas Love Peacock was born on 18 October 1785 at Weymouth in
Dorset, the only child of Samuel and Sarah Peacock (née Love). His
father Samuel, of whom little is known, seems to drop out of sight
entirely, although a doubtful family tradition has it that he died
in 1788. In this year Sarah left London with her son for the Thames
village of Chertsey where her parents were living. Thenceforth, the
dominant male influence in the child's life was his grandfather,
Thomas Love, a former Master in the Royal Navy who was retired on
half-pay after being wounded in a naval action. The more
significant parental influence, however, was the maternal one.
Sarah Love Peacock seems to have been a remarkable woman. A widow
in straitened …

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